V. I. Lenin

Insertion for N. K. Krupskaya’s Article “A Page from the History of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party”{1}

Published:Soldatskaya PravdaNo. 21, May 26 (13), 1917.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 41,

      page435.1.Translated:Yuri SdobnikovTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaCopyleft:V. I. Lenin Internet Archive (www.marxists.org)
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OnTuesday, May 9, more than 200 émigrés,
travelling across Germany, arrived from Switzerland. Among them were the
Menshevik leader Martov, the Socialist-Revolutionary leader Natanson and
others. This transit has provided fresh evidence that there is no other
reliable way from Switzerland, except via Germany.Izvestia
Petrogradskogo Sovieta Rabochikh i Soldatskikh Deputatov(No. 32 of
April 5) carries a report by Lenin and Zinoviev about their trip across
Germany, giving the names of the socialists of two neutral countries
(Switzerland and Sweden) who certified by their signatures that the trip
across Germany was undertaken of necessity and that it did not involve
relations with the German Government which were in any way reprehensible.

{1}Krupskaya wrote the article in connection with the slander campaign
started by the bourgeois and S. R. and Menshevik press against Lenin and
other Bolsheviks who had returned to Russia via Germany. Lenin made the
insertion as he was editing the article. It was published inSoldatskaya PravdaNo. 21 on May 13 (26), 1917.

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